Executive Manager, Assurance, Transformation

Executive Manager, Assurance, Transformation (COO Risk)

**How will I help?**

The 2nd Line Assurance team is part of the Chief Operating Office in Risk Division and is accountable for delivering the annual Coordinated Assurance plan.

As an Executive Manager in the 2nd Line Assurance team, you will play a key role in leading and coordinating assurance reviews to provide insight, oversight and challenge of risk management in large-scale projects and transformation initiatives in Westpac. This role will have a key focus on UNITE, which is a multi-billion technology simplification program for the Bank.

Key Accountabilities
- Lead and oversee the execution of Assurance reviews to ensure the effective governance and quality of change execution risk within the UNITE Program (delivery and delivered risks)
- Deliver assurance opinions on the effectiveness of risk management practices (including control effectiveness) in managing the associated risks, ensuring alignment with the 2nd Line Assurance Standard
- Partner and collaborate with senior stakeholders, including Divisional 2LOD teams and the UNITE Program to ensure that both delivery and delivered risks are effectively managed
- Collaborate with 2nd Line Divisional CRO teams and Group Audit to identify thematic opportunities and focus areas in coordinated assurance planning activities.
- Produce and present reporting of key insights to divisional risk committees, program governance forums and program steering committees.
- Lead, develop and build a high performing team which provides forwarding looking insights on key risks to Divisional CROs, Senior Management, and Executive Management Teams.

**What's in it for me?**

You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**

You will have experience in technology risk, transformation, governance, internal audit or similar assurance roles. Alongside your skills in influencing, relationship building and developing recommendations based on data driven insights, you should be proactive, outcomes-driven and possess a strong customer focus.
To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Proven experience in overseeing technology risk, project governance, risk management, and compliance in large-scale complex transformation projects
- Strong and practical understanding of project management methodologies (e.g. Agile) and experience with project software and tools.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Experience with producing and presenting insightful reporting to risk committees, governance forums and program steering committee.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- Proven leadership capability

**What's it like to work there?**

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other's passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We'll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you're in control of where you start and how you'll grow.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.
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Job ID 300002644819183